'The audience is
'The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture, otherwise they will know all tunes before the opera begins.' – Ralph Vaughan Williams on the overture to The Poisoned Kiss – This catalogue draws together a list of musical stage works available from Oxford University Press. For each title details of orchestration, roles, and approximate duration, as well as a brief synopsis or description are given. The catalogue opens with Ballets, including works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst and Michael Berkeley, as well as well-loved classics such as John Lanchbery’s version of Ferdinand Hérold’s La fille mal gardée, commissioned to match Frederick Ashton’s peerless choreography and Osbert Lancaster’s stage designs. Alongside the ballets that were written by composers specifically for dance listed in this catalogue, Oxford University Press publishes many other works suitable for use with choreography. To discuss these possibilities further, please contact the Oxford University Press repertoire promotion team. The Opera list includes original compositions across a range of dramatic large-scale operas through to light-hearted and witty operettas, the works together covering a broad range of subjects and styles. The list encompasses titles by composers including William Mathias, Phyllis Tate, Alun Hoddinott, Libby Larsen and Zhou Long. Highlights include modern and authoritative editions of William Walton’s The Bear, and Vaughan Williams’s Shakespearean opera Sir John in Love. Additionally, there is a selection of practical and scholarly editions of historic operatic repertoire including Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, as well as four works by George Frideric Handel. Other highlights include David Lloyd-Jones’s acclaimed edition of Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which presents the initial 1869 version and the ‘final version’ of 1874 with both the original Russian text and English translations, plus two scholarly editions of Gilbert & Sullivan Savoy operas – The Yeomen of the Guard and Ruddigore. Musical Dramas for Young People draws together a list of works, often with flexible scoring and instrumentation, on themes that are suitable for young performers or that are designed to be viewed by a younger audience. Highlights include works by Phyllis Tate and John Gardner, as well as John Rutter’s The Reluctant Dragon, The Wind in the Willows and Bang!, and Bob Chilcott’s Birdland. The final section of the catalogue highlights a selection of ballet and opera titles and excerpts that are suitable for the concert platform, including ballet suites, and opera overtures, as well as an extensive range of orchestrations matching John Rutter’s volume Opera Choruses in the Oxford Choral Classics series – a ‘must’ for any Opera Gala evening. Cover photograph credits: Left: Ralph Vaughan Williams– The Pilgrim's Progress. Royal Northern College of Music 2019. Photograph: Robert Workman Upper Right: Phillis Tate– The Lodger. Stadt Theater Bremerhaven 2018. Photograph: Heiko Sandelmann Lower Right: Zhou Long – Madame White Snake. Opera Boston 2016. Photograph: James Matthew Daniel. 2
Ballet Berkeley, Michael Bastet 4 The Mayfly 4 Crosse, Gordon Wildboy 4 Young Apollo 4 Hérold, Ferdinand La fille mal gardée 5 Holst, Gustav The Golden Goose 5 The Morning of the Year 5 Lambert, Constant Horoscope 6 Pomona 6 Romeo and Juliet 6 Lövenskjöld, Herman Severin La Sylphide 6 Rawsthorne, Alan Madame Chrysanthème 7 Skempton, Howard Delicate 7 Vaughan Williams, Ralph Job: A Masque for Dancing 8 Death of Tintagiles 8 Walton, William Escape Me Never 8 Façade 9 The Quest 9 The Wise Virgins 9 Opera Adler, Samuel The Outcasts of Poker Flat 10 The Wrestler 10 Berkeley, Michael Baa Baa Black Sheep 10 For You 11 Jane Eyre 11 Buller, John Bakxai 12 Butler, Martin A Better Place 13 Craig’s Progress 13 The Sirens’ Song 13 Crosse, Gordon The Grace of Todd 14 Potter Thompson 14 Purgatory 14 The Story of Vasco 15 Finnissy, Michael Shameful Vice 15 Thérèse Raquin 15 Gay, John The Beggar’s Opera 16 Handel, George Frideric Athalia 16 Imeneo 16 Julius Caesar 17 Semele 17 Harper, Edward Fanny Robin 18 Hedda Gabler 18 The Mellstock Quire 18 Hoddinott, Alun The Beach of Falesá 19 The Magician 19 The Trumpet Major 19 Larsen, Libby Barnum’s Bird 20 Dreaming Blue 20 Eric Hermannson’s Soul 21 Mathias, William The Servants 21 Mussorgsky, Modest Boris Godunov 21 Purcell, Henry Dido and Aeneas 22 Sullivan, Arthur Ruddigore 23 The Yeomen of the Guard 24 Tate, Phyllis The Lodger 25 What D'ye Call it 25 Vaughan Willliams, Ralph The Bridal Day 26 The First Nowell 26 The Pilgrim’s Progress 26 The Poisoned Kiss 27 Riders to the Sea 27 The Shepherds of Delectable Mountains 28 Sir John in Love 28 Walton, William The Bear 29 Troilus and Cressida 30 Zhou Long Madame White Snake 31 Musical Dramas for Young People Arch, Gwyn The Runaway Zoo 32 Arnold, Samuel School and Crossbones 32 Blake, David It’s a Small War 33 Chilcott, Bob Birdland 33 Crosse, Gordon The Dream of Adachigahara 34 Holly from the Bongs 34 Gardner, John Bel and the Dragon 34 Grant, Will Red Riding Hood 34 Jacob, Gordon Animal Magic 35 Long, Robert Daedalus and Icarus 35 The Fire Maid 35 Mathias, William Jonah 36 Rutter, John Bang! 336 Brother Heinrich's Christmas 37 Piper of Hamelin 37 The Reluctant Dragon 38 The Wind in the Willows 38 Tate, Phyllis A Pride of Lions 39 The Scarecrow 39 Solar 39 Twice in a Blue Moon 39 Ballet & Opera in Concert 41–3 Contents Bizet, Georges Doctor Miracle 12 Johnson, Robert Sherlaw The Lambton Worm 23 Hoddinott, Alun What the Old Man Does is Always Right 35 3
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